Thando Manana shares Bulls Daisies plan for World Cup year

The Springbok Women is usually made up of a majority of Daisies players, and therefore a strategic plan is needed for possible replacements.

Speaking to SABC Sport, Manana says they will look into their Emerging Daisies Programme to help produce players capable of stepping up in the absence of senior or national team players.

"If I didn't think out the box – I think people who head up high performance are people who always think out of the box – last year, when I lost 12 players for the Olympics and Sevens qualifiers during our competition, we didn't see them the whole year," explained Manana.

"So what happened is that I had to have players that I had to give trust to players from clubs, and I had to give trust to the BBRU for having that kind of players who could step up.

"So that sort of gave me an eye-opener to say that, I've got to have players that are readily available, should I lose [regulars].

"In three weeks' time, I lose Zinhle Mpupha, Ayanda Malinga, and Maria Tshiremba for the Challenger Series in Cape Town – have we made plans for that? Yes, we have.

"What are those plans? We'll just call up from the Emerging Daisies players that we know will fill up those gaps, even if we miss that much experience from those types of players.

"So, I think that's the base we have to look at in terms of the core squad, where we can lose on any given day, like when the Springbok Women will have a camp in two weeks' time.

"We play Boland in the same week, so they will come on the Wednesday night, train one session and then we go to Boland, so it's a disrupted week already, and we have to plan and trust our other players [to step up]."

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